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| Hans Breder Coralville Studio 1971 gelatin silver print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Paul Mpagi Sepuya Mirror Study for Joe 2017 inkjet print Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| Wolfgang Tillmans Knotenmutter II 1994 C-print Walker Art Center, Minneapolis |
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| Collier Schorr Portrait of the Battle 2003 C-print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Philip Pearlstein Two Models in a Window with Cast-Iron Toys 1987 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Elia Alba Larry Levan (snake) 2006 gelatin silver print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Robert Goodnough Abduction XI 1961 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Robert Hansen Man Men 164 1966 enamel on board Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Gustave Moreau The Song of Songs 1853 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon |
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| Michael Wolf Tokyo Compression #22 2010 C-print Kunstmuseum, The Hague |
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| Garry Winogrand Centennial Ball, Metropolitan Museum of Art 1969 gelatin silver print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Bénigne Gagneraux Man tormented by Jealousy & punishing Cupid ca. 1790-95 etching and aquatint Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Kevin Zucker Untitled 2007 C-print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Charles Demuth Distinguished Air (viewing Brâncusi's sculpture Princesse X) 1930 watercolor on paper Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Benton Murdoch Spruance Jacob and the Angel 1950 lithograph Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Gabriel-Constant Vaucher Antique Wrestlers at the Uffizi, Florence ca. 1790 drawing Cabinet d'Arts Graphiques des Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève |
from The Muse of Happiness
Sounds of a few birds;
the garden filmed with a light moisture.
And the insecurity of great hope
suddenly gone.
And the heart still alert.
And a thousand small hopes stirring,
not new but newly acknowledged.
Affection, dinner with friends.
And the structure of certain
adult tasks.
The house clean, silent.
The trash not needing to be taken out.
It is a kingdom, not an act of imagination:
and still very early,
the white buds of the penstemon open.
Is it possible we have finally paid
bitterly enough?
That sacrifice is not to be required,
that anxiety and terror have been judged sufficient?
A squirrel racing along the telephone wire,
a crust of bread in its mouth.
– Louise Glück (2001)